Fencing at the 1978 Asian Games

Fencing at the 1978 Asian Games was held in Bangkok, Thailand in December, 1978.

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual épée details	Toshiaki Araki Japan	Kim Kuk-hyun South Korea	Sei Murata Japan
Team épée details	China Cui Yining Guo Dongsheng He Zhiping Tan Zhihui	Japan Toshiaki Araki Hideyuki Itakura Sei Murata Takahiro Yamaguchi	South Korea Kim Heon-su Kim Kuk-hyun Kook Choong-kum Shin Dong-seok
Individual foil details	Kiyoshi Otsuka Japan	Wang Fuyun China	Hideyuki Itakura Japan
Team foil details	South Korea Cha Yul Kim Doo-kyung Kim Heon-su Kim Kuk-hyun	China Qiu Hongjun Wang Fuyun Wu Fujing Xu Jianzhong	Japan Hideyuki Itakura Takao Masuoka Shiro Toshima Kenichi Umezawa
Individual sabre details	Wang Ruiji China	Tadashi Kawamura Japan	Cha Yul South Korea
Team sabre details	Japan Atsushi Akiho Ryokichi Fukushima Tadashi Kawamura Kiyoshi Otsuka	China Chen Jinchu Wang Ruiji Yang Shisheng Zhang Baoren	South Korea Cha Yul Cho Jae-bong Kim Doo-kyung Kim Kuk-hyun

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual foil details	Luan Jujie China	Zhu Qingyuan China	Masako Yoshioka Japan
Team foil details	China Hu Yubao Luan Jujie Su Lianfeng Zhu Qingyuan	Japan Yukari Itakura Machiko Ito Hiroko Kawamura Masako Yoshioka	Indonesia Rita Piri Hehanusa Wahyu Hertati Silvia Koeswandi Slamet Poerawinata

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	4	0	8
2	Japan (JPN)	3	3	4	10
3	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	3	5
4	Indonesia (INA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		8	8	8	24

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